Speakers

Pilgrim's Hospice Society offers compassionate care for individuals living with a terminal illness, enhancing dignity and quality of life until the end of life. Monica Robson, Executive Director, and Nicole Craft, Manager of Fund Development, will visit our Club to tell us about the development of the hospice, the indispensable role it plays in our community, and what our Club and its members can do to support the work of their society.

Our guest speaker, Mark Kahan, became aware of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Wheels of Hope volunteer driver program through his brother-in-law and Rotary Club member, Fred Kraft, who has been a volunteer driver with the program for over 15 years. Mark became a volunteer driver himself in 2014 and shortly thereafter, joined the staff as a volunteer coordinator. As a childhood cancer survivor, Mark is incredibly passionate about the Wheels of Hope program, that helps people who may not have any other way to get to and from their life saving treatment.

Mark will tell the Club more about the program and how Rotarians can contribute to its work. Fred may also be willing to speak a little about the work he has done with the program over the years.

Dr. Anne Fanning-Binder, Valerie Sims, and Rotarian Norm Johnson will visit our Club to tell us about the Music Mends Minds program, an innovative approach to helping persons suffering from loss of cognitive function due to dementia and other degenerative neurological conditions.